Conference chefs::ms-exchange

    
    	Clicking on the picture of the envelope in the title bar at the top
    	of the window appears to sort the messages by "read" status, much
    	like clicking on "From" or "Subject" sorts the messages in order.
    

	If you don't have "end time" listed as how you are sorting, then make 
sure it is there. Because that is the only way I could get it to work. 

It's hardly obvious but very easy to sort messages by any column in the 
display.  Just click on the column heading.  If you click it again it toggles 
between ascending and descending order.

So to do what .0 wants, just click on the grey time column heading.  It will 
sort by time.  If it's ascending time order (you want descending so most 
recent will be first) then click again on the column heading.

You can do the same thing on the From heading to sort by sender, etc.

You can also do the same thing in Explorer to sort by file type, time, name, 
etc.

    Ah, but what .0 is asking for is to sort so that UNREAD mail is
    first, not most recent. That's not the same thing.
    
    In Eudora Pro this can be done easily as there is a column for
    Status (which includes read/unread/replied/forwarded etc.) that you
    can sort by. I didn't see a similar column with Outlook mail when I
    tried it, so I don't know if there's an equivalent with Exchange or
    not.

    
    	OK, let me try this again.
    
    	Click on the envelope and it will bring the unread items to the
    	top.  8^)
    

    re .5
    
    Doesn't seem to do that, I click on the envelope and 2 unread mail
    messages still appear miles down the inbox.
    
    Greg

    Click on it again, Greg, and the order is reversed.
    
    Cheers, Laurie.

    
    	RE: .6/.7
    
    	Yeah I tried it this morning and I had three failures from "Sys-
    	tem Administrator" that appeared on the bottom even though there
    	were seven others from other senders [non-failures] that appeared
    	on the top.
    
    

    
    	Oh, how about a suggestion?
    
    	Every time you go through and read new mail, move it all to the
    	"Mail" folder so that the only thing left in the In-box is al-
    	ways new mail.
    

Take a look at the View|Sort... dialog box -- there is no field for 
"received/not received" to choose.  I don't think you can do it.

You could choose the "unread items" view and only see your unread 
messages.

Laurie and others,

No matter how many times I click the envelope it doesn't do what I requested in .0

Greg

| <<< Note 1033.4 by SMURF::PBECK "Who put the bop in the hale-de-bop-de-bop?" >>>

| Ah, but what .0 is asking for is to sort so that UNREAD mail is
| first, not most recent. That's not the same thing.

	Wouldn't unread mail be the most recent?

    
    	Glen, do you think I read all of your messages as soon as I get
    	them?
    
    	I generally try to put it off as long as possible.
    
    	8^)
    
    	As a rule, though, if you read everything as it comes in and don't
    	do some sort of visual scan of the messages, all of the new mess-
    	ages will have the latest date on them.  However, this might not be
    	the case if you have messages coming in from a different time zone
    	[a zone that's behind yours].
    	
    

    While it's not exactly what was asked for, in Outlook you can do
    "messages with AutoPreview".
    
    This gives you a few line summary of the message along with the message
    headers. This summary is in blue and disappears once you have read the
    message.
    
    This coupled with a "sort by received" is pretty close to what was
    asked for. It wouldn't fly if you had LOTS of messages in a folder that
    you have been ignoring (unread) for a while.
    
    In outlook you can also sort based on Retrieved time in addition to
    Received time. I'm not up on the distinction, but it might also be
    useful in this case.
    
    Steveg

>   <<< Note 1033.12 by BIGQ::SILVA "http://www.ziplink.net/~glen/decplus/" >>>
>
>| <<< Note 1033.4 by SMURF::PBECK "Who put the bop in the hale-de-bop-de-bop?" >>>
>
>| Ah, but what .0 is asking for is to sort so that UNREAD mail is
>| first, not most recent. That's not the same thing.
>
>	Wouldn't unread mail be the most recent?
    
    No.
    
    Unread mail is any mail I haven't read yet. I determine what to read
    when according to the subject title and how relatively important it
    is to deal with immediately. Distribution list information that is
    basically background material can sometimes wait days before you
    really need to get to it.

    RE: .10
    
    > Take a look at the View|Sort... dialog box -- there is no field for
    > "received/not received" to choose.  I don't think you can do it.
    
    I would be *really* surprised if you could sort your messages by
    "received/not received" field.
    
    Given a choice, I would like all "not received" mail to be at the top. 
    That way, I will have tomorrow's Dow Jones in my mail yesterday :-)
    
    - Vikas

What you really want is some macro that moves the read mail to another 
folder automatically for later refiling.

Is this possible in Exchange/Outlook or only in old legacy apps ?

Alan

    
    	Uh-oh, here we go again.
    
    	All together now ... "VMS does that".
    
    	8^)
    

Try:

    VIEW!FILTER!ADVANCED!UNREAD (and you can set the "does not match" to view
only read items.

Its as close as you get(I think).

BobW